Paralyzed Cowboy Gets Last Wish: Buried Standing Up

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December 11, 1992

GRAND JUNCTION, COLO. — A cowboy who was in a wheelchair for the last six years of his life received his dying wish: He was buried standing up, with his boots on. Jimmy Dale Struble, 49, died Dec. 3 of lung problems. He was paralyzed from the neck down in 1986 during a fight with another cowboy. Tuesday's funeral procession was tailored to Struble's last requests. Mourners followed his saddle-draped casket as it was hauled to the graveyard in a pickup truck. Struble's friends then lowered his casket, feet first, into the ground with their lariats.